Vladimir Voivoda Biography

Alexei Voevoda: I won’t go to the coaches of the Sochi Triumph Two -time Olympic Bobsli Champion Alexei Voivoda told Interfax about his sports plans a two -time Bobsli Olympic champion Alexei Voevoda. RU is the Tsorfirpiean Bobsli Olympic triumph Alexei Voivoda met with an Interfax correspondent Vladimir Nardin and told him about sports plans for the future and social projects that he conducts.

In addition, he shared his opinion on innovations in Bobsleu. Participation now in competitions is a great risk of serious injury, so I will miss this season. Now is a great opportunity to concentrate a little in other directions - for example, on promoting mass sports, a healthy lifestyle, the revival of patriotism among young people. I have long had ideas for participating in such social projects.

We earned glasses before the Olympics at the America Cup. There was a light incident at these competitions: I was put with a young pilot who dropped me during the race, and I torn two clavicle ligaments. Even now it is painful to start a hand. In fact, I spoke at the Olympics on great enthusiasm and desire, but with good injuries. The ligament is such a substance that must be given time to at least heal.

And I understand perfectly well: if I prepare as professionally and at the same level as I have prepared before, I will not give the opportunity to live my body. The second point is fatigue. There was a very long season and, accordingly, a lot of effort was given. Almost everything was injured. The same Dima Trunenkov - a person who has no health problems at all, now he has a variety of injuries: then he will reduce his leg, then convulsions, again, overload.

I had a spasm of the back of the hip right at the Olympic Games, at the combat races. I was taunted, Alexander Zubkov - taught, Dima Trunenkov - too. So we must give time to recover, both physically and morally. We won leadership positions, and now only victories are expected from me. I can’t come to competitions in uniform, the worst than at the Olympics, and there I had a wonderful form.

To achieve it, you need to train very hard. With such training, I will just aggravate the situation. And if this resource is without a head, then it will quickly become, sorry for the expression, unsuitable for use. As you know, the resource that speaks to you now, who is at least thinking, and in this case, knows his body. And if I will train hard again, it will be a mockery of my body and, of course, the risk of getting a serious injury.

After which I can’t do anything - neither run, nor to engage in armwrestling. And then I will just become a good guy of Lesha without Olympic physical training, a physical culture. And I would not want it. I would like to extend my sports youth at least years on I do not say that all 15 years it will be Bobsley. And in general, that at the three Olympiads I acted at a high level as a dispersal, this is already an excellent indicator.

Few people act like that. I have certain intentions to invest all my experience that the Russian team is in the most effective form. There is a galaxy of guys who are simply lost when we come to tests. When we, the leaders, are no, they run very well. And so the guys look at us, who have achieved something, and not everyone stimulates the maximum result. This is depressing, and they show the result worse than it could be.

I am now taking part in the project “I can! We are not used to it, and their excessive brightness scores us a little. We need to get used to it. As for the Russian national team in Bobslia, there are periods when you need to give the opportunity to prove himself to someone else. And then the new Alexander Zubkov will come, the new Alexei Voevoda, and, perhaps at the games in Pyeongchang, there will be a new crew.

Therefore, it is very much to plan for four years. It is difficult, I can guarantee any season in Bobsleu, I can guarantee: if there is no strict injuries, I will fight, prepare, and I don’t know for four years, honestly. And two of the two possible medals in the Bobsleu is extremely difficult to win. There are only three crews in history that could. After the finish line in Sochi, I was asked what I feel.

I remember only one brightest feeling - this is fatigue. I cannot state you a mixture of these emotions. In any case, it is difficult to preserve the desire to speak in Pyeongchang when I am already 38 years old. In addition, sports are sports, but there is life, society, people who want us to share information: how to train, how to prepare, how, in fact, live.

I have a very interesting story with food. A lot of people who are interested. You will probably have such a question: will I be a coach?I have an army students, but this is as a hobby. And to train in the bobslee is to be an astronaut, fly in orbit and occasionally go home. I don't want to. I want to be in society, I want to apply the acquired knowledge. There are programs that we are working on, a technique in which a person will not get tired of training and he will be interested every day.

Now this project will be developed with a large network of fitness clubs. We have the opportunity, they listen to us, and this is a very good bonus after the Olympics to do something good, important in social terms. The Olympics ended and everyone forgot about everyone. Maybe they remember, but not so already. That is, the peak that was, it is automatically reduced.

And the children who, looking at us, wanted to go to the gym, after some point they would see that Lesha was gone, Sasha is not. They begin to think - why should I play sports? As a result, perhaps, it will not be what it should. And a good physical form leads a person to systematicity, he will at least understand what he is doing, and what he does. To promote the right values, we must first work proactively with the media.

In the show “I can! People are extraordinary creatures, we can change, we can, in principle, can believe everything, the main thing is to believe it. And when we, athletes, will appear on television like that, the children will go into sports, they will be interested in the second stage of the social load that my team and my team are trying to implement - a system of specialized testing.

I did not expect it to be a very long process. I thought that everything would work out quickly, but I like it, so there is practically no free time. Will there be an opportunity to combine social activities with sports? I have always had and have an individual training system. Maybe a couple of times the national team insisted that I come to the collection, but in the end they trusted me and allowed me to prepare myself.

I have never deceived and always came in shape. If I prepare for something, this will not affect my social projects. But behind him is that we will follow us even more intently. Doping control comes to me, regularly trying to find something in me. Naturally, they can’t do anything. But - the very fact that we are very close to us. In addition, we have a fairly sharpened relationship with Europe and America, and recently the situation has become even more encouraged.

Therefore, the guys will certainly be very difficult. You need to be neat, both athletes and technicians. A year ago, in the pre-Olympic season, in our World Cup in Sochi, I unscrewed a millimeter of the bolt from due to vibration and, as a result, our crew was disqualified. What could this give in speed? Nothing.

But such close attention to us was then. Now think about what will happen now. The most important event is the Olympic Games, which must be approached correctly. Methods of training foreign athletes are based precisely on the fact that they are gradually restored, rolled up. In this and next season, they will not be much invested.